Zipporah Sein

Naw Zipporah Sein (born 1955) was the General-Secretary of the Karen National Union from 2008 to 2012 and Vice-President of the KNU from December 2012. During the Internal conflict in Burma, she resisted the military dictatorship of the Tatmadaw under Than Shwe.

Biography
Naw Zipporah Sein was born in Karen State, Burma in 1955. She was trained as a teacher before she left for Thailand in 1995, seven years after the brutal State Peace and Development Council took power in Burma and began to massacre activists for civil rights. From 1998 to 2008 she was the General-Secretary of the Karen National Union (KNU) and the chief executive of the Karen Women's Organization, and she helped Karen woman refugees. She was called a "heroine" for her efforts to save human rights in Burma.